Henri-Pierre Picou
Henri-Pierre Picou – Henri-Pierre was an academic painter and one of the founders of the Neo-Grec school, along with his close friends Gustave Boulanger, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Jean-Louis Hamon, also academic painters.
From the time of his debut in 1847, he became a regular at the Salon, showing almost every year until his final exhibit in 1893. He has been called the most fashionable painter towards the close of the Second French Empire; and received many commissions, including commissions for large religious frescoes from many churches, which included the Église Saint-Roch.
